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Even if it were possible to record all spikes from all neurons at once, he argued, a brain doesn’t exist in isolation: in order to properly...
Eventually, vision scientists figured out what was happening. It wasn’t our computer screens or our eyes. It was the mental calculations that brains make when we...
“I’d never really felt happy, no matter what was going on in my life,” he says. “I always felt restless, always felt this underlying heaviness. Things...
Others have argued that it would be immoral to turn off or delete a conscious machine: as our robot Robert feared, this would be akin to...
My Sexbot Hal is a Mind Reader The first thing I ask of Hal is to explainwhat it’s like underneath, after you peelaway the crust, mantle,...
“You can make the argument that REM sleep is kind of a neglected resource,” says Benjamin Baird, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who studies...
President Biden’s early climate efforts prioritized popular actions: rejoining the Paris agreement, purchasing clean energy and vehicles, and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies. But the administration’s strategies...
Ten agencies are also working on research and development of facial recognition technologies, including the Departments of Justice, Defense, Homeland Security, and State. The agencies ranged...
Last spring, strings of bistro lights and outdoor seating in a courtyard behind the Student Center beckoned students to gather safely outside. The lights were a...
One of the things Rod Bayliss III ’20, MEng ’21, remembers most clearly from his childhood is his father’s 1964 Ford Mustang. “I was fascinated by...